Cruz is the magnificent conservative. Trump is the trench warfare demolition expert.
They need each other.
Cruz is principled. Trump also has principles as expounded in his recent revised release “Time To Get Tough”. You should read it.
But Trump has one thing that Cruz doesn’t have, the low information voter.
Put it this way, a Trump/Cruz 2016 ticket wins hands down.
Individually it’s a roll of the dice.
And a few other things to note:
The media is already marginalizing Ted Cruz by ignoring him. Still he gets through to conservatives and the high information voters. But he does not penetrate the massive middle, not yet and maybe never if he doesn’t get the needed exposure.
But Trump has the tabloid news cycle people on his staff that are experts at the game of trapping the MSM into daily sensationalism. The Trump people know how to keep the controversy going and how to introduce and inject new scandals and controversies on a weekly basus. They know how to set the traps and catch the rodent media scum every time.
Cruz does the same but he aims his attacks on the deserving GOP leadership, Obama and eventually Clinton. But he’s not attacking the media. He can beat anyone in the media in a real-time debate on any issue and he has done so. But he won’t retaliate for their attacks on him like Trump does.
Today Ted had a perfect opportunity to tell the press that Megyn Kelly was out of line by trying to corner candidates on PC-loaded questions. He had the perfect chance to say that political correctness has no place in designing ‘gotcha’ scenarios.
But Ted unfortunately flubbed it.
Whereas Trump’s response to Kelly’s PC invective was to point out that Christians are having their heads chopped off in a world that is the worst ever for Christians and yet people in the media are hung up on political correctness.
The bottomline is that Trump and Cruz need each other. I don’t see one, not one candidate that Trump would choose as a running mate other than Cruz. Fiorina? Forget it! Huckabee? Not even a consideration! All the others have demonstrated their stupidity and duplicity.
Good analysis!
It might seem like good campaigning for Trump to pick Cruz, but rumor has it that Trump might choose a successful businessman from his own organization; someone Trump feels can win the trade deals needed.